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Bonds rated above BBB- (or Baa3 in the Moody's rating scale) are considered investment-grade. This means that most institutional investors are permitted to own the bonds.
Investment grade bonds receive a rating of BBB-/Baa3 or higher. In the eyes of the ratings agencies, these bonds are considered to be worthy of investment with a reasonable level of risk and...
This data represents the effective yield of the ICE BofA BBB US Corporate Index, a subset of the ICE BofA US Corporate Master Index tracking the performance of US dollar denominated investment grade rated corporate debt publicly issued in the US domestic market.
Bonds with a rating of BBB- (on the Standard & Poor's and Fitch scale) or Baa3 (on Moody's) or better are considered "investment-grade." Bonds with lower ratings are considered "speculative" and often referred to as "high-yield" or "junk" bonds.
The iShares BBB Rated Corporate Bond ETF seeks to track the investment results of an index composed of BBB (or its equivalent) fixed rate U.S. dollar-denominated bonds issued by U.S. and non-U.S. corporate issuers.
A bond is considered investment grade or IG if its credit rating is BBB− or higher by Fitch Ratings or S&P, or Baa3 or higher by Moody's, the so-called "Big Three" credit rating agencies. Generally they are bonds that are judged by the rating agency as likely enough to meet payment obligations that banks are allowed to invest in them.
Moody's Speculative Grade Ratings: Ba, B, Caa, Ca, C. Standard and Poor's AA, A, BBB, BB, and B ratings are sometimes supplemented with a plus (+) or a minus (-) sign to raise or lower a bond's...